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This just struck me, and I don't know if it's true, but a-lex could be a play on Greek and Latin for "not" and "written." Which is a pretty good name for a voic
by thedailymail 5y ago
This just struck me, and I don't know if it's true, but a-lex could be a play on Greek and Latin for "not" and "written." Which is a pretty good name for a voice-based input system.
- albert_e 5y agoLex is the name of the AWS service that provides NLP based chatbot functionality It is what drives A-lex-a under the hood. https://aws.amazon.com/lex/ https://aws.amazon.com/lex/ In addition it uses another AWS service called Polly that generates speech from text.
- throwmeaway128 5y agoYou have the order of creation wrong. AWS Lex, Polly, and Transcribe began as forks of Alexa's NLU, TTS (which was an aquisition called Ivona), and ASR components. Source: I worked for Alexa at the time.